ICD10monitor October 15, 2025
As we conclude National Case Management Week 2025 with the theme of “Guiding Journeys,” we are making a point of celebrating case management professionals who lead with heart, expertise, and purpose!
During this week’s festivities, Mary Beth Pace will share how the work of the professional case manager is getting harder, as the patients and families we journey beside are dealing with an ever-more costly, complex, and fragmented healthcare system.
Patients as consumers are struggling to juggle household discretionary spending. The latest data we have is from August, due to the federal government shutdown. It shows that healthcare expenditures account nationally for 8.3 percent of the monthly consumer price index, or CPI.
In the last 12 months, the overall CPI...







